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ELEGANT ‘Pied de Roy” /Archipenzolo BY MICHEL BUTTERFIELD, c.1700
A 18×2.5cm (7 1/16/” x 1”) close folding brass “Pied de Roy” with decoratively shaped joint element, hand-graved “Butterfield AParis” and “Pied de Roy”.
Nicely engraved with floral decoration.
Very good condition (please note a scratch on one side).
The instrument was also used as “archipenzolo”, i.e. the possibility to be placed on the cannon barrel to set the correct angle for shot.
Michel Butterfield (London, c. 1643 – Paris, 1724) a well-known Parisian maker, declared “Ingégneur du Roy pour les Instruments de Mathematiques, Quay de l’Horloge du Palais, à Paris”.
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Alpha et Omega
Alpha Et Omega
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